Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Impact Wrestling's Josh Alexander had ear pinned to head after it 'exploded'
dailystar.co.ukImpact Wrestling's World Champion is synonymous for wearing amateur wrestling gear – complete with the classic headpiece.Ahead of his headline title bout against company legend Eric Young on Sunday at Slammiversary, he has finally told the real story about why he wears the gear.And it involves very graphic detail about an exploding ear in 2012.Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star, he said: “I got cauliflower ear from taking a 'head scissors' and it was swollen.“I drained it, and I had to wrestle in a tournament the next day.“In the opening match against ACH he kicked me right near my ear and it swelled up to the size of a baseball on the side of my head – it was severely uncomfortable and pretty painful.“And I tried to drain it, but I couldn't, so I ended up going to the hospital and they ended up draining it.“I came back and wrestled the second and third round of that tournament, because I'm silly, and when I did, I had all these bandages around my head.“By the time I got home, I took the bandages off my ears swelled up to be the size of a huge headphone – and it just exploded wide open and was dangling down.“And all this blood and stuff came out.”The 35-year-old Canadian dad-of-two, who is married to former wrestler Jade Chung, returned to the hospital, where they ended up pinning the remains of his ear to the side of his head.They told him it would stay they for around two weeks, and he wasn't allowed to wrestle for around four months.But, a wrestler is a wrestler, and Josh got a booking for three weeks time – which he attended.In order to protect his pinned ear, he searched around on eBay and ordered the headgear he is now known for – and wrestled in it.“I felt so goofy when I did it,” he laughed.“I heard every.
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